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Originally Posted by Freedom
Sometimes it's hard to believe the hypocrisy of it all. I'm sure that Lee must have known he was playing with fire by asking young brothers to "train" older brothers. What did he think was going to happen? I was too young to have any idea what was going on back then, but how disrespectful it must have been for Lee to have treated brothers like that! I'm sure many sacrificed a lot to leave the US and go to Taiwan to attend the training there.
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At the core I believe, Witness Lee wanted brothers who were loyal to him first and foremost.
In the 70's Witness Lee had Max to go throughout the country and mess up elders because Lee thought they were too religious. By the late 80's, many of the elders Lee had trained or appointed during the 1960's were now in their mid-late 50's. They were resistant to the culture change LSM was to implement. Just like there's a Early Nee Later Nee, there was also an Early Lee Later Lee. The older elders needed to be replaced by younger elders. Such was the late 80's slogan "
Out with the old. In with the new."